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Kindly Doc Maddow — current champion of The New York Times best-seller list, huzzah! — had a little fun the other night with the fact that the Romneybot 2.0 pit crew has begun to distance the mechanism from one Kris Kobach, secretary of state in Kansas and author of some of the punitive anti-immigration statutes upon which the Romneybot was compelled to hang garlands so that it could continue grinding its way to the nomination. Now, though, since those statutes have helped the Romneybot to a popularity among Hispanic voters somewhere slightly above that enjoyed by mange, Kobach is no longer an "adviser." He's just a "supporter." Another couple of weeks and he'll be a "gardener" or a "pool boy."

All indications are that we will be told that the essential mendacity of the Romney campaign has been just a lot of shrewd maneuvering to gull the Bible-bangers in the tricorns into voting for the money-bombing Romneybot. (Resistance, it appears, is futile.) Which will probably work, even though they're bringing the mechanism down to the University of Virginia at Crazytown to give a speech next month.

Charles P. PierceCharles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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